Siri Coming to the Mac Menu Bar in OS X 10.12 Later This Year

[ThunderSkunk]

If you want to experience something interesting, cut your bills by eliminating your redundant home internet service, or live in the country where landline intnernet access is cost prohibitive or unavailable completely. Since your iPad is an internet machine anyway, it can handle all the internet functionality, being always-on via cellular, and far more secure anyway, while your mac remains a workstation on its more secure (due to not being online) home wifi network, & shared drives & printing. You can sync all your data from one to the other via wifi or USB with ease. Right?

Makes sense, no? You might think.

Til you try it, and find out how much of Apples focus has been on features that rely on every device being connected to the internet.

 

[Mr. Donahue]

With Siri always listening there needs to be some way of differentiating which device you're talking to. When I'm in bed if I say 'hey Siri what's the time' I get a response from three devices!

How about different names?

Hey Siri! Dewey and Louie!

 

[Rigby]

I just hope they let us disable this. And by disable I mean disable, not like Cortana on Windows 10 which still phones home to bing.com even if you turn it off (Microsoft seriously suggests to block it using the Windows firewall if you don't like it).

 

[AFEPPL]

I bet you'd redesign it just like this...

Man that's fugly.....
The existing UI is old and needs bringing into the 21st century never mind going back to that nightmare!!! And I'm a lover of retro computing too...

 

[anthonylambert]

When I'm next on a packed commuter train out of London Bridge whats happens if you shout "hey Siri Why is my train company so rubbish".....

Will I get 20 peoples iPhones going off ?

 

[Speechless]

I wonder if Siri will hear me above the fan noise on my MBP2011.

no chill.

 

[rdlink]

So right now I do not use and hide the spotlight menubar icon. Alfred is much faster and has never let me down. So now, I will not use Siri and hide the menubar icon. I turn it off ASAP when I get a new phone or reinstall iOS. I do not want to constantly be connected to servers and have my bandwidth slowed. I turn off all that crap.

Thanks for sharing. How do you take your tea and eggs?

 

[mrgraff]

30 years in the making...

 

[arkmannj]

With any luck we will be able to tie it in with Automator and create/teach custom commands.

 

[e93to]

It would be amazing if Siri can assist the users if the computer crashes or exhibits weird behaviors.

"Hey Siri, my email account on Mail app keeps asking for password. Can you check on that?"

"Searching possible solutions to the problem, and reporting to Apple!"

 

[originalmagneto]

As a second class citizen for Apple, I don't care about this. I buy Apple stuff that is more expensive than the Apple stuff my American friends buy, however, I cannot use Siri in my own language and the local services don't work here. Google has it covered, but not Apple

 

[Monique1]

It's 2016. Nobody cares.

 

[uid15]

User A: "I want feature X" (not seeing anything outside their use case)

User B: "I want feature Y" (not seeing anything outside their use case)

Apple: "Introducing A-Z! We couldn't be more excited!"

Users A & B: (clap LOUDLY) - "Oh wow, we forgot about C-Z... that's revolutionary" (No, dears, it's OBVIOUS to people who explore EVERYTHING over multiple multiple iterations.)

 

[AppleMad98004]

When connected to power? Why not anytime? I use my MacBook Pro on battery 90% of the time.

Because to be on all the time and listening for "hey siri" you'd be plugged in 90% of the time because you wouldn't have battery left.

 

[2010mini]

Let me guess.... Will only be available on the latest hardware?

 

[xmichaelp]

i really want the ability to remove spotlight and NC from the menu bar.

Do buttons really bother you that much?

Also, why the heck would you not use spotlight?

 

[xmichaelp]

I wonder if Siri will hear me above the fan noise on my MBP2011.

Do you use Chrome and flash?

 

[ZVH]

How about fixing the existing operating systems first???

 

[xmichaelp]

So right now I do not use and hide the spotlight menubar icon. Alfred is much faster and has never let me down. So now, I will not use Siri and hide the menubar icon. I turn it off ASAP when I get a new phone or reinstall iOS. I do not want to constantly be connected to servers and have my bandwidth slowed. I turn off all that crap.

You're not constantly connected. It fetches info when it needs it. How would it slow down your bandwidth?

 

[Leoleon]

I think it is a nice to have a tool that some will be able to use. It might not be beneficial for every one; I know some people who suffer from dyspraxia, dyslexia and a friend that is mildly autistic. This could be a real game changer for them.

 

[Quu]

Finally.

 

[Bhatu]

With launch of Siri, Apple might put some extra natural language processing chip to conserve battery and make it a new feature in upcoming Macs to boost sales.

 

[Cougarcat]

I will probably only use it for making reminders and controlling iTunes from afar, but still nice to see. Long overdue. Hopefully developers can do things with it too.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Finally! I hope it runs on the mid 2015 macbook pro...

Of course it will. It better!!!!

 

[Crzyrio]

FINALLY! I will love this

With launch of Siri, Apple might put some extra natural language processing chip to conserve battery and make it a new feature in upcoming Macs to boost sales.

While that is very doable on the iPhones, it is not one bit easy on Macs because they use ARM.
Unless they introduce Intel + Arm Macbook or Arm macbook